Renate Blauel

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Renate Blauel is a German music engineer who was married to Elton John.

Already a sound engineer, she had engineered albums including Hysteria for the Human League and Croatia Records ^[1] Blauel was then a recording engineer on John's 1983 album Too Low For Zero in Sydney, Australia. John admitted that his bisexuality was a "compromise". They were married on Valentine's Day 1984 in Sydney, Australia after he had proposed to her four days earlier in a restaurant. Attendees included Olivia Newton-John. A second service was held for John's family members later in England. Blauel also worked as a recording engineer on John's 1984 album Breaking Hearts. They divorced in 1988 when both she and Elton felt that he could no longer deny his sexual orientation.